Daily Answers

9-across – Unable to catch director — fade out : STONEDEAF

10-across – Slate one on Cape Fear : PANIC

11-across – Hastily produced and directed Pixar film : RANUP

12-across – They follow workers entertaining director in this place : ADHERENTS

13-across – Harry Potter film attaches this: not for film : THELAST

14-across – Satellite delayed, screening start of Shutter Island : ISOLATE

17-across – Italian artist in Italy after Hollywood actor : PENNI

19-across – Second film shot here? : SET

20-across – Characters in scene making medical treatment : ENEMA

21-across – To quarrel before hit : RUNINTO

22-across – Green taxi driver’s short days : CABBAGE

24-across – Hot stuff within these threesomes, having stolen one tablet to perform? : THERMOSES

26-across – Oscar parts for The Departed scripts? : OBITS

28-across – Gives parts to son in show : CASTS

29-across – Decisions of 10 cutting bad scenes : SENTENCES

1-down – One drawing on film without restriction on series : USER

2-down – Urban one in common TV programme about north : TOWNIE

3-down – See 13 across : TEMPTATION

4-down – A number in group function : SECANT

5-down – See 13 across : OFCHRIST

6-down – Box blows up : SPAR

7-down – Sister on time after second part of film’s overrun : INUNDATE

8-down – Works parts of a drama : ACTS

13-down – Listen in to TV show one records : TAPER

15-down – Gave away too much space? Left love to give approval in bed : OVERBOOKED

16-down – Turning over English TV channel for escape : EVADE

18-down – Initially going in, son’s seen Raging Bull : NONSENSE

19-down – Film man processes topless shot : SCORSESE

22-down – Film about crime ring : CASINO

23-down – Each star hugs tart : APIECE

24-down – Gather food : TUCK

25-down – Film not heard by audience … : MIST

27-down – … while in quiet frame : SASH

8-across – China in Korea, say — one’s ideal partner? : SOULMATE

9-across – A lot came to be evacuated immediately : ATONCE

10-across – See 22 : MORE

11-across – Too bad, if starters in restaurant burnt beyond recognition — there’s salad! : RABBITFOOD

12-across – Sound of bagpipes that’s hard to bear! : BURDEN

14-across – Policeman not able to claim that Spanish victory : CONQUEST

15-across – See 3 : BUFFETT

17-across – Hot spring turned on for every one, possibly : PERHAPS

20-across – Queen inside volcano should be brought back, they feel : ANTENNAE

22-across – Molière requires three seconds to contrive a comparatively oxymoronic theatrical cliché? : LESSIS

23-across – Spooner’s locks implanted, nothing on top : BAREHEADED

24-across – See 2 : MOON

25-across – Intoxicating drink making camels woozy : MESCAL

26-across – Consider putting cut inside lid : CHEWOVER

1-down – State capital no great thing, house overlooking it : HONOLULU

2-down – Rare phenomenon, very rare to idle about : BLUE

3-down – Successful investor in 11? Then capital in tomatoes! : WARREN

4-down – Recovery when hit by the Beatles : GETBACK

5-down – One plays this G & S character : PATIENCE

6-down – Sweaty hands, signs of discomfort in woman : HOTFLUSHES

7-down – A short type of clue : ACROSS

13-down – Redraft in decree outlining very strong argument : DIFFERENCE

16-down – Flashy and cheap little houses to auction off : TINSELLY

18-down – Criminal person, one inside, ending in slammer : PRISONER

19-down – Finding scorer, cup ties both kicking off : VERDICT

21-down – Apple inferior to an unspecified number — more in apple-pie order? : NEATER

22-down – Half a century, one counting as a run : LADDER

24-down – Low tide initially doubtful : MOOT

1-across – Beat other bass drum — these too loud? : BERMUDASHORTS

10-across – Old seat almost in line : ARCHAIC

11-across – Snake something disconcerting? : RATTLER

12-across – Seek to secure a visit : HAUNT

13-across – Plant’s home oft cultivated to accommodate cow parsley, primarily : FLOWERPOT

14-across – Eye old Egyptian heading off : OPTIC

16-across – Some retro films I miss, epitomised in negativity : PESSIMISM

18-across – Logorrhea not entirely nonsense, in truth : VERBOSITY

19-across – Army after good spirit : GHOST

20-across – Container for drink, short box with purple back : COFFEECUP

23-across – Reason smoke ring beginning to loom over : LOGIC

24-across – Means of transport I’m certain, essentially based on Arctic territory for starters : ICEBOAT

25-across – Insect should take queen from behind, one feels : ANTENNA

26-across – Torticollis — or a headache? : PAININTHENECK

2-down – Come across contents of menu on bar : ENCOUNTER

3-down – Deliberate straddling of pole by flesh : MEANT

4-down – Revolutionary looked at something less stimulating? : DECAF

5-down – Very honestly? : SERIOUSLY

6-down – Flying down the touchline? : ONTHEWING

7-down – Clue covering case of unusual plant : TULIP

8-down – Tailor has info on two boys’ names, then one stuck on labels? : FASHIONVICTIM

9-down – Certain I am unsure about it, hard I reckon? : ARITHMETICIAN

15-down – Shut top of coop, then moult? : CLOSEDOWN

16-down – Harry not up for university : PRINCETON

17-down – Spray can with origin that’s artificial : INORGANIC

21-down – Goddess in prayer, fed up : FREYA

22-down – Take game or fish for cook : POACH

23-down – Words once spoken – about time rested : LATIN

8-across – Swerve to avoid this 9 25 window? : PORTHOLE

9-across – Rounds around : ABOUT

10-across – See 25 : AWAY

11-across – Blanditia in amore might be Latin for it : FLIRTATION

12-across – In the Middle East, a bleeding Arab here : STABLE

14-across – Lines in seafood 9 25 : WRINKLES

15-across – Animal’s 9 25 or bust : BREASTS

17-across – East German wealthy person not facing reality : OSTRICH

20-across – Romance 9 25 leads to chafing : FRICTION

22-across – Want the end 9 25 : DEARTH

23-across – From artists, I get art sent back — I plan ahead : STRATEGIST

24-across – Twice stole 9 25 to get resort : BORA

25-across – Rabbi bordering on homosexual — what’s wrong in that, now? : RIGHT

26-across – Shrink from touch 9 25 : CONTRACT

1-down – Trouble on tap? : HOTWATER

2-down – Keep still or wander 25 10 : STAY

3-down – Feet of jelly can be sticky : TOFFEE

4-down – Critiques on the subject of desperate wives : REVIEWS

5-down – Stores for knickers 9 25 : PANTRIES

6-down – Knock out 25 in another dodgy state : NORTHKOREA

7-down – Tried range 9 25 : STROVE

13-down – Raymond prend le dessert : BLANCMANGE

16-down – Free camping with forks? : TRIDENTS

18-down – Downpour makes it hard to see : CATARACT

19-down – China to build historic city : ANTIOCH

21-down – Delay 25, firework softly dropped : RETARD

22-down – An item rushing 25 10 : DATING

24-down – See 24 across : BORA

1-across – Beginning of spring? That should get you going : JUMPSTART

6-across – Cool — nothing to add! : NEAT

8-across – Sack of fruit with old plant : PLUMBAGO

9-across – Arctic resident maintaining temperature — that makes sense : INTUIT

10-across – Statement by filmed divorcee, retracted : REMARK

11-across – 23 in a short run features in Guardian story : ANGELINA

12-across – Wolves team surrendering lead twice, shooting high : ACKACK

15-across – Dear me, my mongrel whined! : YAMMERED

16-across – One getting fuel emptied into buttocks, blows up : INFLATES

19-across – Spirited point in wise broadcast? : YEASTY

21-across – Spillage of onanist on pioneering physician providing parts for 23 : JENNIFER

22-across – Reportedly take offence at description of female in union : BRIDAL

24-across – 23 has a wrinkly bum : HILARY

25-across – Comment as a huge amount inside volcano backfires : ANNOTATE

26-across – See 6 down : WOOD

27-across – Odd bean, say, for bootlegger : RUMRUNNER

1-down – See 11 : JOLIE

2-down – A couple of doctors like a port : MOMBASA

3-down – See 24 : SWANK

4-down – An old tree full of life originally, an exceptional thing : ANOMALY

5-down – Stick-like and sticky? But the name hasn’t stuck! : THINGUMMY

6-down – Love in contrivance of 1 down and a late 23 : NATALIE

7-down – Alliance lamenting jerks : ALIGNMENT

13-down – Formerly little money in ransom I set, necessary to rise : CENTESIMO

14-down – Toy with lift key here — helium unnecessary for toy operator : KITEFLYER

17-down – Rope in ground keeping beam up : LANYARD

18-down – Contemptuous remarks, as bones turned up in the middle of Portsmouth : SARCASM

20-down – See 21 : ANISTON

22-down – Stop a couple talking a foreign language : BANTU

23-down – One taking a part, a part that’s uninitiated : ACTOR